There have been some rumors that the next iOS 8 beta won't go out until next week, and it's really likely at this point the iOS and Yosemite releases will stay in sync. It might make sense not to drop it before a US holiday weekend.

There have been some rumors that the next iOS 8 beta won't go out until next week, and it's really likely at this point the iOS and Yosemite releases will stay in sync. It might make sense not to drop it before a US holiday weekend.

OTOH, might come out tomorrow. We shall see!

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It might make more sense for them to alternate releases, so when the bug reports come flooding in on release they can concentrate on that one platform.

That's where I'm coming from too. And a lot of the features are either similar across both platforms (like extensions and Swift), or they are actually tied together (Continuity, iCloud). It might be easier to coordinate releases to those pieces if you could do them together.

It might make more sense for them to alternate releases, so when the bug reports come flooding in on release they can concentrate on that one platform.

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It doesn't change a thing if they are two dedicated teams.

Plus, synchronizing the releases is useful especially with Yosemite and iOS 8, because there are features like Continuity, Handoff and SMS that require programming on both platforms. If you make a build of both products and realize it works as expected, it makes sense to release them both at the same time.

Arg. That sucks. I can't move on with the development of my app without a more stable release of Xcode and a fixed version of Swift... At least it's not DP1 anymore, I couldn't even save arrays to user preferences (!).

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